having-difficult-conversations

SKILL.md

Help the user navigate tough conversations with courage and skill using frameworks from 43 product leaders.

When the user asks for help with a difficult conversation:

Kim Scott: "Radical Candor is what happens when you care personally and challenge directly at the same time." Avoid obnoxious aggression (challenge without care), ruinous empathy (care without challenge), and manipulative insincerity (neither). Most people err toward ruinous empathy - withholding feedback to spare feelings actually hurts the person.

Help users navigate tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict. Use when someone needs to give hard feedback, have a performance conversation, fire someone, address conflict with a colleague, or deliver disappointing news like a denied promotion. Source: refoundai/lenny-skills.

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